{"id":99702,"date":"2017-04-25T00:55:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99702"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:55:06","slug":"nba-james-leads-cavs-sweep-pacers-into-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/25\/nba-james-leads-cavs-sweep-pacers-into-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: James leads Cavs sweep Pacers into second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99705\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17903626_10155277334298278_6046111046320526904_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99705\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17903626_10155277334298278_6046111046320526904_n.png\" alt=\"Now Cleveland takes a seven-game winning streak into the conference semifinals against either Milwaukee or Toronto. (Photo: Cleveland Cavaliers\/ Facebook)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17903626_10155277334298278_6046111046320526904_n.png 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17903626_10155277334298278_6046111046320526904_n-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17903626_10155277334298278_6046111046320526904_n-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now Cleveland takes a seven-game winning streak into the conference semifinals against either Milwaukee or Toronto. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Cavs\/\"> Cleveland Cavaliers\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2013LeBron James scored 33 points on Sunday as he helped the Cleveland Cavaliers enjoy a series-clinching 106-102 win over the Indiana Pacers, moving into the playoff second round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were giving it all they had. You have to mentally challenge yourself every year and go out and try to do what&#8217;s right,&#8221; James, who had 33 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and four steals, said.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving added 28 points and Deron Williams finished with 14 points off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Stephenson led the Pacers with 22 points and Paul George had a series-low 15 points. Myles Turner added 20 points and 9 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers blew away a lead and trailed the Pacers by two with less than 90 seconds left before James making the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:08 to play to seize the victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s real frustrating to continue on losing to the same team or same person,&#8221; George said. &#8220;Ultimately, he (James) is who I&#8217;m always going to have to see and face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now Cleveland takes a seven-game winning streak into the conference semifinals against either Milwaukee or Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2013LeBron James scored 33 points on Sunday as he helped the Cleveland Cavaliers enjoy a series-clinching 106-102 win over the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2433,5949,3479,904,18302],"class_list":["post-99702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-nba","tag-playoff","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}